"In its desire for authenticity, the Modern design movement curbed the ornamental excess of the 19th century, making design fit the age of mass production. Today, we're seeing the same desire for authenticity manifest itself in the 'flat' trend, which rejects skeuomorphism and excessive visuals for simpler, cleaner, content-focused design." Fascinating perspective on the whole digital vs. analog design debate by Dmitry Fadeyev.

Just curious, did anyone actually read the entire article? The author is very careful to say that too much minimalism is also a mistake.

User Interfaces are inevitably a language, a means for seeking input from and providing information to a user.

For me, the 'flat' or 'digital' design movement recognizes that we are exposed to more new information in an average day than our ancestors experienced in a year. There is growing evidence that it's no good for us.